| What is web hosting? Whenever you visit a | | | | For example, iPowerWeb is a popular web |
| website, what you see on your web browser is | | | | hosting company that hosts more than 300,000 |
| essentially just a web page that is | | | | websites. For that reason, a web hosting |
| downloaded from the web server onto your web | | | | company need many web servers (essentially, |
| browser. In general, a web site is made up of | | | | these are computers) to 'store' the website. |
| many web pages. And a web page is basically | | | | And all these web servers are connected to |
| composed of texts and graphic images. All | | | | the Internet through high speed Internet |
| these web pages need to be stored on the web | | | | connection and housed in a physical building |
| servers so that online users can visit your | | | | called 'data center'. In order to guarantee |
| website. | | | | all the web servers are safe, secure and |
| | | | fully operational all time, a data center is |
| Therefore, if you plan to own a new website, | | | | a physically secure 24/7 environment with |
| you will need to host your website on a web | | | | fire protection, HVAC temperature control, |
| server. When your website goes live on the | | | | virus detections, computer data backup, |
| web server, online users can then browse your | | | | redundant power backup and complete disaster |
| website on the Internet. Company that | | | | recovery capabilities. |
| provides the web servers to host your website | | | | |
| is called web hosting providers. | | | | What are the different types of web hosting? |
| | | | There are different kinds of web hosting |
| A well-established web hosting provider | | | | companies out there with different |
| sometimes hosts up to thousands of websites. | | | | characteristics. |